Benarroch tells us that the homeland is always somehwere else, not on maps, it is the smell of an orange tree in Granada on an evening that never existed. Jose Luis Garcia Martin, El Mundo, Spain. One the best Israeli poets writing today. Natan Zach, haaretz, Israel. The raging bull of Israeli literature. Yaron abituv, Kol Hazman, march 2001. Benarroch opens a world of emotions, where there is a place for the stupidity of people and their decisions against minorities, and allis done with good poetry. Antonio Luis Gines, Cuadernos Del Sur, Spain Benarroch transforms permanent exile, the impossibility to adapt and the eternal escape, into his vital poetics. Xulio Valcarcel, El ideal gallego, Spain Benarroch seems to hold in his hands not only the world, but also the memory of the world... Less

In the fall of 1965 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz sent a young journalist named Elie Wiesel to the Soviet Union to report on the lives of Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtain. “I would approach Jews who had never been placed in the Soviet show window by Soviet authorities,” wrote Wiesel. “They alone, in their anonymity, could describe the conditions under which they live; they alone could tell whether the reports I had heard were true or false—and whether their children and their grandchildren, despite everything, still wish to remain Jews. From them I would learn what we must do to help . . . or if they want our help at all.” What he discovered astonished him: Jewish men and women, young and old, in Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad, Vilna, Minsk, and Tbilisi, completely cut off from the outside... Less

"once i was" - acclaimed new film prizes of Avi Nesher is "the most fascinating film career, the legendary director's glorious") Avner Shavit, Haaretz (. Summer 1968 - summer of love sexual revolution - a boy finds a job in Haifa mysterious Matfranc survivor matchmaker smuggling goods. stapler) "Adir Miller - who plays one of the most fascinating characters created in Israeli cinema." Yair Raveh, Leisure Plus (taking with him the boy swinging on a journey of initiation into the forbidden world of the depths of downtown Haifa, where love takes a surprising form. - Film was a big success in cinemas in Israel, when they saw him close to 300,000 - viewers.